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chapter 6

Industry in the North

Question: who invented the first clipper ship?
Answer: John W. Griffiths

Question: Who recieved a patent for a telegraph
Answer: Samuel F.B. Morse

Question: What is an engine that pulls a railroad train
Answer: locomotive

Question: fast sailing ship of the mid-1800
Answer: clipper ships

Question: used this instead of water powered
Answer: steam power in factories

Life in the North

Question: skilled worker
Answer: artisans

Question: association of trade workers formed to gain higher wages and better work conditions
Answer: trade unions

Question: refusal of workers to do their jobs
Answer: strike

Question: severe food shortage
Answer: famine

Question: policy that denies equal rights to certain groups if people
Answer: descrimination

cotton Kingdom in the South

Question: had to remove the seeds from the cotton by what?
Answer: by hand

Question: what was Eli Whitney's invention ?
Answer: a machine to clean cotton

Question: in 1792, how many bales of cotton were made?
Answer: 6,000 bales

Question: who modeled his cotton mill in South Carolina on the mills of Lowell Massaschusetts?
Answer: william Greg

Question: what recieved the need for southern industry?
Answer: slavery

Life in the South

Question: name for the wealthy planters who made their money in the mid-1800's
Answer: cottonocracy

Question: to keep slaves from either running away or rebelling
Answer: slave codes

Question: family groups that includes grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles, and cousins?
Answer: extended family

Question: by the 1800's many enslaved African Americans were devout what?
Answer: christans

Question: who led a major revolt?
Answer: Nat Turner

Miscellaneous

Question: congress gave morse founds to run wire from Washington D.C., to where?
Answer: Baltimore

Question: Engineers learned to build sturdier ___________ and ____________?
Answer: bridges and roadbeds

Question: party that was anti-catholic and anti-immigrant
Answer: Know-nothing party

Question: although the south was mostly rural there was some what?
Answer: cities

Question: group of Americans who wanted to preserve the country fro Native-born, white Americans
Answer: nativists